Posts by Driving Miss Daisy - Botany
2597 days ago

Honouring New Zealanders who served in the First World War

Janita from Driving Miss Daisy - Botany

1914-1918 Honouring New Zealanders who served in the First World War

At 11am on 11 November this year, Aotearoa New Zealand will mark the centenary of the Armistice that ended the First World War in 1918. As word of the Armistice reached our shores 100 years ago, the Evening Post described the scene in Wellington: “There were songs and cheers, miscellaneous pipings and blastings, and tootings and rattlings—a roaring chorus of gladsome sounds.”

The Field of Remembrance, located in front of Auckland War Memorial Museum, contains over 18,000 white crosses, each bearing the name of a man or woman who lost their life in the conflict during the years of WWI. (Photo taken when we visited this moving Installation recently.)

Red poppies symbolising hope and regrowth are placed by every cross with a garden of poppies under each Pohutakawa tree surrounding the field.

www.fieldsofremembrance.org.nz...

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More messages from your neighbours
5 days ago

Neighbourhood Challenge: Who Can Crack This One? ⛓️‍💥❔

The Riddler from The Neighbourly Riddler

What has a head but no brain?

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3 days ago

Poll: 🗑️ Would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

Aucklanders, our weekly rubbish collections are staying after councillors voted to scrap a proposed trial of fortnightly pick-ups.

We want to hear from you: would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?

Keen for the details? Read up about the scrapped collection trial here.

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🗑️ Would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?
  • 82.8% Same!
    82.8% Complete
  • 17.2% Would have liked to try something different
    17.2% Complete
297 votes
27 days ago

Some Choice News!

Kia pai from Sharing the Good Stuff

Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.

Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.

Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?

Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!

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